Carbonara is so simple yet so easy to mess up. I’ve played around with different recipes and seen many video tutorials online. Most recipes call to add the cheese/egg mixture into the hot pan; and this is when it gets very tricky— I usually end up with a dish that looks like scrambled egg pasta …read »

Santol is in season. Over the years I’ve adapted the buro recipe I’ve made for green mangoes I posted earlier here for when there’s abundance of santol. And I must say I like using this fruit more now than mangoes for preserving. It produces this unique, almost meaty texture and floral flavor. Sweet, sour, a …read »

For the past month, I have been on the Paleo Diet as a way to detox and reboot. I decided to try Paleo Manila, a food delivery service that specializes in the above. I am given three meals and two snacks daily. I am quite satisfied with the food so far as I was not …read »

I was at a dinner party with friends the other night and I said I would contribute dessert. It was the perfect opportunity to experiment on them a food hack I had seen on the interwebs recently for oven baked S’mores. It’s so easy but the results can make anyone look like a pro. All …read »

I grew up with an Ilongga yaya cooking meals for us. And there was always this chicken dish that she cooked that I liked and never really bothered to find out the name till recently. She had left when I was in my teens and only recently gotten to try this dish again when it …read »

It seems like summer isn’t going anywhere; like temperatures are rising each day. I did some work in the kitchen today and all I could think about were ways to quench one’s thirst in these conditions. This isn’t rocket science, but I found some calamansi sorbet and a bottle of gin in the house so …read »